oz 86 my toy my way :)

[fantapants]

so what, i hear u adoring peoples ask, have i been up to?

well, went for a drift day, had an awsome time, learnt a heap, not the least of which is i need hp to cover the fact im a crap stearer

got to thinking, thinking led to dreaming, dreaming led to planning.

EOI sale became thereal deal, and in an afternoon or two went from



to this



to this



So the engine and comp have been sold and the gearbox will be sold soon. The plans had thus far revolved around two engine choices. One the vq35 :lol: i know a dirty nissan, but a great engine and huge fun in the 86, well i was convinced it would be anyway. The other was a much more reasonable choice... beams.

Well it looks like beams has been the winner, mainly as common sense reared its ugly head. This is going to be my first engine conversion and im doing pretty much all of it myself. The vq35 will be something to keep in the back of my mind, but required soooo much cutting blah blah, and this is a street car first and formost.

so deposit has been put down on this...

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...3DWatching

This includes engine, 6speed box, all wiring and comp, acc pumps and motors blah blah.

The plan so far is to stitch weld the bay, clean the horrendous remains of the body loom up, remove the battery, paint, fit bigger bmc, weld in strut supports, make engine mounts, make gearbox mount.

Ill be helped by my able sex monkey on all the fab stuff, well he will be drinking and showing me how to make it. Ill also be attempting t wire in my first ecu But i have devised a cunning plan!!!!!

As most would know, these dont fit sooo good with the massive inlet plenum attached. The easiest solution is to remove the brake booster.

OR



quads. Not usually the easiest option, but the method to my madness is this, i have found a good well designed adaptor from a well known beams tuner, and old mate slutty has some blacktop quads for me as well. I plan on running a adaptronic as the motec sold with the 20v. Why? well the motec cant run the infinatley adjustable cams, the adap can. Well my motec cant, i know there are ones that can Adaps have been used many many times to run quads on 4a's in the past, so besides some wizardry needed, it should be a great package.

Also have on the way a exedy light one peice flywheel and hyper single clutch. Saves about 10kg aparently. Revs a whole bunch easier, though makes hill starts tricky. shouldnt be a huge problem as the 86 is a LOT lighter than the altezza.

Also plan on running the tft screen quages from adap to replace my dash cluster. The 6 speeed is an electronic speed sendsor, so that should make the speedo a easier option than trying to feck about with getting the altezza dash in and running.

Need to get a custom tailshaft made, hopefully just the first section?

Outside that im hoping my tseries with trd 2way holds together, one of the reasons i went with a mild na upgrade instead of a balls out turbo build.

Also have my modified knuckles on...





and this is what they start out as ...



they drop the stearing ball joint about 2 inchs and should stop the binding that the s13 gets on full lock, also induces a small increase in lock, moreso if you use a tubular lca

So currently im waiting on th new owner to get his shit sorted and pick the engine up so i have room to start my stupid plan all loves jay rod!!

thanks for reading guys, and advice, suggestions please throw them at me, im surely going to make fuckups and the more i learn thebetter this will be

also a pic of what she looked like the day i started pulling her apart ...



soooo loving her right now